Global dairy and food giant Danone is to expand its baby food manufacturing facility in Wexford. Danone has secured EUR20m (US$25m) in funding from Enterprise Ireland for the investment, which is expected to create around 45 jobs. The ...
Tags: Baby Food, dairy and food, European market
This week's clutch of featured industry research from the just-food store highlights commodities data from agribusiness specialists LMC International. It also includes in-depth looks at Carrefour's operations in Spain and Wal-Mart Stores' ...
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This week's research round-up includes a clutch of reports looking at consumer trends in the French dairy market and baby food in China. BABY FOOD China Infant Formula and Care Product Industry Report, 2011-2012 The report analyses ...
Tags: Consumer Trends, Dairy, Baby Food
TerraCycle celebrated a new milestone, after the company’s recycling fundraising Brigade programs hit the 10 million mark in terms of the number of pieces of waste packaging saved from UK landfill. Launched in the UK in 2009, ...
Swiss food company Nestlé's $11.85bn deal to acquire Pfizer's infant nutrition business has received approval from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, a move which brings the company closer to completing the acquisition. ...
Tags: infant nutrition business, anti-trust bodies, baby food market
The New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed that several Chinese-made baby food firms are falsely claiming that their product is produced in New Zealand. This problem was identified after nearly 20 Chinese baby ...
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Hong Kong plans to soon introduce laws on nutritional labeling of baby food, in response to the recent report that imported infant formula from Japan contained less iodine than recommended. Last week, Centre for Food Safety (CFS) Hong ...
Israel-based nutraceutical ingredients company LycoRed has announced that its new premix plant in Changzhou,China,is fully approved. The new plant,which is fully operational,will cater to processors of infant formula,beverage,baby food ...
Tags: premix, baby food, infant formula
Flexible re-sealable packaging company in the UK Flexico Group has unveiled the new SensoGrip zipper to the UK markets. It is ideal for food products such as cheese, soups, baby food, pasta and cooking sauces. The SensoGrip zipper has ...
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Brazilian food company BRF Brasil Foods and Irish ingredients firm Carbery have formed a 50/50 whey processing joint venture in Brazil,with a proposed investment of$50m. The new joint venture will use Carbery's technology to process whey ...
The Indian Government said that this move will allow firms to conveniently switch to uniform norms for selling their products. With the revision, its now mandatory for FMCG companies to pack and sell products such as biscuits and milk ...
Tags: Packaging Norm, India, Indian packaging, Fmcg Firms
Researchers from the University of Almeria, Spain, have developed a new method which helps in finding the presence of most minute residues of drugs, which are actually given to livestock, in some infant foods. The researchers detected ...
Tags: Scientists, New Method, Veterinary Drugs, Infant Foods
The Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) has enhanced its food screening system by employing the High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (HRMS) Technology. This technology will enable the detection of contaminants that are not ...
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LycoRed, an Israel-based supplier to dietary supplement and functional food & beverage industries, has announced that its new premix plant in Changzhou, China is fully approved. The new plant will manufacture processors for infant ...
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Global aseptic packaging forecast to grow 24% in next five years The world market for aseptically packed products amounted to 123 billion liters, contained in 269 billion packs during 2011, according to the new “Global Aseptic ...
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